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land: 9,569,901 sq km water: 27,060 sq km ||
 * ~ **Geography** ||~  ||
 * Location || Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam ||
 * Geographic Coordinates || 35 00 N, 105 00 E ||
 * Area || total: 9,596,961 sq km country comparison to the world: [|4]
 * Area Comparison || slightly smaller than the US ||
 * Border Countries || Afghanistan 76 km, Bhutan 470 km, Burma 2,185 km, India 3,380 km, Kazakhstan 1,533 km, North Korea 1,416 km, Kyrgyzstan 858 km, Laos 423 km, Mongolia 4,677 km, Nepal 1,236 km, Pakistan 523 km, Russia (northeast) 3,605 km, Russia (northwest) 40 km, Tajikistan 414 km, Vietnam 1,281 km ||
 * Climate || extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north ||
 * Natural Reasources || coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest) ||
 * Natural Hazards || frequent typhoonsdamaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence, volcanism ||

65 years and over: 8.9% (male 56,823,028/female 61,517,001) (2011 est.) || male: 96% female: 88.5% (2008 census) ||||  ||
 * ~ People ||~  ||
 * Total population || ,343,239,923 (July 2012 est.) country comparison to the world: [|1] ||
 * Age Stucture || 0-14 years: 17.6% (male 126,634,384/female 108,463,142) 15-64 years: 73.6% (male 505,326,577/female 477,953,883)
 * Life Expectancy || noun: Chinese (singular and plural) adjective: Chinese ||
 * Nationality || noun: Chinese (singular and plural) adjective: Chinese ||
 * Religions || Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2% //note:// officially atheist (2002 est.) ||
 * Languages || Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages ||
 * Literacy || definition: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">age 15 and over can read and write total population: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">92.2%

local long form: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo local short form: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">Zhongguo abbreviation: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">PRC || Executive Vice Premier LI Keqiang, Vice Premier HUI Liangyu, Vice Premier ZHANG Dejiang, and Vice Premier WANG Qishancabinet: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">State Council appointed by National People's Congress ||
 * ~ Government ||~  ||
 * Country name (long form) || conventional long form: <span class="category_data">People's Republic of China conventional short form: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">China
 * Government Type || Communist state ||
 * Capital || name: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">Beijing ||
 * Chief of State/Head of Government || <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">President HU Jintao,V ice President XI Jinping, <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">Premier WEN Jiabao

6.7703 (2010 est.) 6.8314 (2009) 6.9385 (2008) 7.61 (2007) ||
 * ~ Economy ||~  ||
 * Labor Force by Occupation ||  ||
 * Agriculture || Rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish ||
 * Industry || Mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals, coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing; transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships, and aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles, satellites ||
 * Exported Commodities || electrical and other machinery, including data processing equipment, apparel, textiles, iron and steel, optical and medical equipment ||
 * Imported Commodities ||  |||| electrical and other machinery, oil and mineral fuels, optical and medical equipment, metal ores, plastics, organic chemicals ||   ||
 * Currency || Renminbi yuan (RMB) per US dollar - 6.455 (2011 est.)


 * ~ Communiction ||~  ||
 * Number of Land Line Phones ||  ||
 * Number of Cell Phones ||  ||


 * ~ Transportation ||~  ||
 * Airports || 502 country comparison to the world: <span class="category_data">[|15] ||
 * Paved Airports || 442 paved runways ||
 * Roadways || total: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">86,000 km standard gauge: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">86,000 km 1.435-m gauge (36,000 km electrified) (2009) ||
 * Roadways Compared To The World || country comparison to the world: <span class="category_data">[|3] ||

country comparison to the world: <span class="category_data">[|1] ||  ||
 * ~ Miscellaneous Information ||~  ||
 * Military || People's Liberation Army (PLA): Ground Forces, Navy (includes marines and naval aviation), Air Force (Zhongguo Renmin Jiefangjun Kongjun, PLAAF; includes Airborne Forces), and Second Artillery Corps (strategic missile force); People's Armed Police (PAP); PLA Reserve Force (2011) ||
 * Internet Users ||  |||| 389 million (2009)


 * Sources ||  ||
 * CIA Fact Book || [|Https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html] ||